Monash university is again at the centre of a wage theft scandal as it admits to underpaying professional staff this year. Earlier this year Monash made a voluntary disclosure to the Fair Work Ombudsman that between January 1 2014 and ...
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The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) held a 12-hour digital sit-in on Monday morning at the University of Newcastle. The purpose of the digital protest was to shine a light on “the scale of insecure work at universities” and what ...
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The University of Sydney has confirmed that thousands of casual workers who applied to convert from casual to permanent employment were rejected at a time a union representative has called a “tragic irony”: R U OK? Day. Last Thursday, only ...
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The casualisation of academic staff is nothing new in Australia – Campus Review has covered the topic many times and yet the problem seems to only get worse. (Kate Prendergast's story A vision for radical university change illustrates the extent of ...
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